Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries

Since Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, I’ll get right to the point. These strawberries are juicy, creamy, sweet little bites of perfection, ready to sweep your taste buds, your friends, or your special someone right off their feet. Of course, these would be fabulous any time of year, but Valentine’s Day always seems like a time to indulge and be decadent. These Cheesecake Stuffed Strawberries give you all the decadence you could want for only 1 Weight Watchers SmartPoints or 35 calories each! I can’t get over how naughty these taste.

Cheesecake is one of my favorite desserts, but one slice from the bakery at my local supermarket is around 500 calories. These strawberries change up the ratio of berry to cheesecake so that you’re eating more fruit, and the berries provide the perfect vessel for portion controlled deliciousness. The graham cracker “crust” on top is the perfect finishing touch. With only 5 ingredients and no cook time, these sweet little treats are easy to whip up, and they’re so light you can indulge completely guilt-free!

Directions:

Cut the tops off of each strawberry and discard. Using a paring knife, hollow out each strawberry, removing the white interior.

In a mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla extract and beat with an electric mixer until thoroughly combined. At this point you can either transfer the cream cheese mixture into a piping bag and pipe it into each berry, or do what I did and just fill each berry using a butter knife.

Dip each strawberry, cheesecake side down, into the graham cracker crumbs, coating the top.

Note: These taste best the day they are made, so if you are not planning to serve/eat all 16 in one day, I recommend making the cream cheese filling, crushing up the graham cracker, and storing them separately (the cream cheese filling in a tupperware container in the refrigerator and the crumbs in a ziplock somewhere dry). This way, you can just hollow out however many strawberries you plan to eat at once and stuff them with filling to order.

Weight Watchers SmartPoints:1 per berry (SP calculated using the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)

I just have to post another comment – we have made these every single day since we found these on your site!! On the weekend we’ve been having 2 with breakfast, then during the week we are alternating between having 3-4 of them as an appy, or 4 of them as a dessert. My husband makes up a container of the cheesecake mixture and then just hollows/stuffs the strawberries as needed. It’s so easy, tasty, and good for you too – PERFECT

You just made a great point, Phyllis! I think I’m going to add to the recipe that if you want to just make a few at a time you should store the cream cheese filling separately and then just hollow and stuff them as needed. Smart thinking! I’m so happy you love these so much 🙂

i made these tonight…i made a few changes…cut both ends of the strawberries off so they could stand on my serving dish…being careful not to cut too deep and ruining the “bowl” of the berry. i added the pointed end of the strawberries that i cut off to the cream cheese mixture when creaming which made the cream cheese a little pink and gave it a faint strawberry flavor. also, i covered 1/2 with honey graham crumbs and the other 1/2 with chocolate graham crumbs. YUM YUM!!!

This recipe is “the bomb” and super easy to make! We had all ingredients in the fridge (except for graham crackers, but Animal crackers worked great!) and oh my goodness these were FANTASTIC! They were phenomenal! What a super easy, super simple, super genius idea:)

Emily, I tried these last night and OMG!!! Most delicious thing EVER! I am a huge fan of cheesecake, so this is so amazing and such a great substitute! I have already shared this recipe (and your blog) with all of my WW friends. You’re the best – thank you so much!

Making these (again) tomorrow for our Super Bowl party! Last time I thought the graham cracker crumbs got soggy, so I’ll just put them in a little dish on the side and let people dip as they go. Looking forward to enjoying them again!

These are amazing!!! My family gobbled them up in 5 minutes. I just added a bit of crushe cinnamon graham cracker to the cream cheese mix and it was awesome. Seriously, no one could believe they weren’t terrible for you! Thanks so much!

These are fantastic! Everyone loved them in my family and I got major compliments from my husband. I served them as dessert after making the Lasagna Cupcakes and Parmesan Zucchini Rounds from this website. Husband raved over the Lasagna and asked for it to join the favorites list!